Our Judges will once again present a total of 31 Awards this year, including our huge $25,000 Grand Prize, plus Gold, Silver and Bronze Prizes in ten different genre categories. All told, this year’s winning writers will receive over $50,000 in Cash and Prizes!

Most importantly, in conjunction with our co-sponsors InkTip, SellaScript, and TVWritersVault, we will actively publicize and promote your winning script, giving you a shot at the ultimate prize – the chance to become a working screenwriter.

PRIZE PACKAGES

In the Final Round of competition, from all ten Finalists in all ten categories, the Judges will select this year’s Grand Prize Winner, who will receive:

◊ GRAND PRIZE WINNER ◊

$25,000 Cash

Promotional Services
InkTip Prize Package
Script Marketplace Listing
Script Express Query Service
Writer’s Rolodex

Gift Certificates
The Writers Store
Office Depot
Amazon

The Judges will also present Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prizes in each of our ten genre categories. The winners will receive:

◊ GOLD PRIZE WINNERS ◊

$1,000 Cash

Promotional Services
InkTip Prize Package
Script Marketplace Listing
TV Writers Vault Membership

Gift Certificates
The Writers Store
Office Depot
Amazon

◊ SILVER PRIZE WINNERS ◊

$500 Cash

Promotional Services
InkTip Prize Package
Script Marketplace Listing
TV Writers Vault Membership

Gift Certificates
The Writers Store
Office Depot
Amazon

◊ BRONZE PRIZE WINNERS ◊

$250 Cash

Promotional Services
InkTip Prize Package
Script Marketplace Listing
TV Writers Vault Membership

Gift Certificates
The Writers Store
Office Depot
Amazon

As part of our promotional services, if you win this year’s competition, a press release introducing you and your script will be sent to our list of industry contacts – including over 4,000 Hollywood agents, managers, producers and executives. Any and all inquiries resulting from the judging process and media blitz will be sent directly to you or your designated representative.

In addition, your winning script will receive the following prize package from our co-sponsor InkTip.com:

  • An email announcement about your winning script sent to InkTip’s list of over 6,500 industry professionals.
  • Your title and logline featured in InkTip’s Players Marketplace magazine, snail-mailed to 4,500 Hollywood insiders.
  • At your discretion, you may place your logline, synopsis, treatment and/or script in InkTip’s online database, a password-protected search engine utilized by hundreds of producers and agents every day.

Winners in the TV Pilot categories will receive a six-month membership and project archival at TVWritersVault.com, the TV industry database used by top production companies and networks scouting original concepts and scripts for television.

In addition, all Winners will receive a free listing in the SellaScript Script Marketplace, a private database for industry professionals actively looking for new material. SellaScript.com will also provide our Grand Prize Winner with a personalized Script Express query letter sent to over 3,000 industry professionals, featured placement in The Hollywood Bugle, and free access to the SellaScript Writer’s Rolodex, containing complete contact information for over 2,800 production companies, producers, agents, managers, and development executives.

It’s all designed to help you sell your screenplay!

Are you interested entering this year’s competition?

Please make sure you read our Contest Rules